Waspie_Dwarf Posted June 20, 2012 #1 Share Posted June 20, 2012 (edited) Cosmic dance produces a new galaxy in NGC 3166/9 A team of astronomers from Queen's University, the Royal Military College of Canada (RMCC) and their world-wide collaborators have detected what is believed to be a "tidal" dwarf galaxy (TDG). Only a handful of bona-fide TDGs have been identified and this particular candidate is the first that has been discovered by the international research team, using high-resolution follow-up observations of the cold group gas mapped by the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) survey. This detection places tight constraints on the history of its neighbouring galaxies and gives insight into the processes that drive universal galaxy formation and evolution.Read more... Edited July 10, 2012 by Waspie_Dwarf Added tag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted June 20, 2012 #2 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Pretty cool - too bad I didn't see any pics in the article.... (did I overlook them?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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